Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said she no longer recognizes Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after a heated incident that saw Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) detained after he interrupted the secretary’s press conference Thursday. Bass and Noem entered the House together in 2011 and served together until Noem left Congress to become the governor of […]

The nation’s capital saw several partisan collisions on Thursday as party divides seemed to stretch Republicans and Democrats to a breaking point. While across-the-aisle bickering is not unusual in the Capitol, Thursday’s scrums, which began with testy hearings involving Democratic governors and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, intensified with Sen. Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) detainment after interrupting […]

Israel conducted a military operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program on Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump cautioned Israel against one. Details of the damage Israel inflicted are still being assessed, and Israeli leaders warned their own population immediately after the strike that they could be on the receiving end of a retaliatory attack. Trump warned […]

A federal judge appeared skeptical on Thursday of the Justice Department‘s argument that President Donald Trump lawfully federalized the California National Guard when he deployed it to Los Angeles over the weekend amid violent protests over immigration raids. Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, hearing arguments in […]